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marius_on Local AI Is Dead. You Are at the Funeral

Of course someone that sells cloud computing would publish this drivel. My local qwen3.8 27b system doing valuable work night after night disagrees.

marius_on Small Models Have Arrived

I wouldn't call $0.2/$1.2 "ridiculously cheap"

marius_on There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

There is no "small team" pushing 100PRs/day, agents or not.

marius_on Qwen 3.8 27B

From my limited tests, Qwen has better reasoning which is a bummer because Muse Glimmer is literally twice as fast.

marius_on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

I really don’t understand how people can even consider LLMs to be anything more than an extremely sophisticated auto-complete. Logic thinking itself emerges from completing patterns. Nothing more to it than that.

marius_on Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum

As a software developer, I absolutely despise loud keyboard sounds that I didn’t produce myself. In an office setting, fast typists with loud mechanical keyboards are the absolute worst (thank God for AirPods)!

marius_on My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)

I was running Immich for a while until the iPhone client app on my wife’s phone completely stopped syncing photos. So I ended up vibe coding my own photo management software in .NET using PostgreSql/Redis and React front end (PWA). Has face recognition too (used the same models Immich uses from huggingface). Works perfectly, photo library scanning/face recognition/thumbnail creation/etc performance is WAY better than Immich (uses .NET background jobs and lots of parallelism and hardware acceleration on my Mac mini server). Turns out if you only care for the thing to work on your own gear you can optimize the code for it quite a bit. It took 2 weekends and Claude code. And with tailscale, it’s hosted on my Mac mini at home and accessible from anywhere through https. I have around 40k+ photos+ phone videos, and the server is a base Mac mini previous gen (8GB ram). Oh, and forgot to add, the app supports downloading/moving photos from iCloud through the undocumented CloudKit APIs behind the iCloud.com web app, complete with 2fa.